Presentation: Dodge Disasters and March to Triumph as a Mentor

Location:

Salon F

Day of week:

Wednesday

10:40am - 11:30am

Good engineers write good code, but the best engineers raise the skills of their junior colleagues, too. If you're a senior Python engineer, you must learn to mentor new hires. Especially if you’re committed to diversity: mentorship is critical to the careers of women and minorities in tech. I have failed at mentoring, then succeeded. Learn from me and march to mentorship triumph.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis is a Staff Engineer at MongoDB in New York City. He is the author of Motor, an async MongoDB driver for Tornado, and of Toro, a library of locks and queues for Tornado coroutines. He contributes to Python, PyMongo, MongoDB, Monary, Tornado, and asyncio.